About this poem

Emma Danes’ pamphlet Dress of Shadows was a winner in the Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition 2012/13. Her poems have won the Hamish Canham Prize and the Poetry Society Stanza Poetry Competition, and been published in anthologies and magazines including CAST: The Poetry Business Book of New Contemporary Poets (Smith|Doorstop) and The Best British Poetry 2011 (Salt). Emma lives in Ely.